Barbra Streisand

Songwriter: Barbra Streisand Ron Nagle Scott Mathews

Producer: Gary Klein

They say her pretty face is enough to launch a ship
Mix that with charm and style
How you gonna miss
With all the admiration the world is at her feet
She's living for attention when she's spotted on the street
Don't believe it
Don't believe what you read
Don't believe it
About the life that I lead
Dinner an a movie
I'll just show my face in town
Rumors fly so fast that I don't try to live'em down
Gets old answering questions why and trying to explain
Why I prefer to stay at home with friends and entertain
Don't believe it
Don't believe what you read
Don't believe it
About the life that I lead
To the outside world it's paradise
They'd love to be in my shoes

They don't seem to realize that it's not like in the news
Don't believe it
Don't believe what you read
Don't believe it
About the life that I lead
I just read in the papers that I bought some birds today
Flying all around my house
Just havin' their own sweet way
It makes me feel so foolish 'cause they called my house a cage
But there's nothing I can do
Just puts me in a rage
Don't believe it
Don't believe what you read
Don't believe it
About the life that I lead
Don't believe it
Don't believe what you read
Don't believe it
About the life that we lead

Barbra Streisand is an Oscar-winning, Tony-winning, Emmy-winning, Golden Globe-winning Broadway legend, film star, movie director and one of the biggest-selling recording artists of all time - a staggering amount of accomplishments for someone whose mother insisted she not to go into show business.

By the time she was sixteen, she’d graduated high school and was living on her own in Manhattan. After winning a talent contest at a gay bar on West 9th Street, Streisand’s ‘spellbinding’ voice quickly became popular at New York clubs and in Broadway shows. After appearances on a number of popular television shows including The Tonight Show, Streisand signed with Columbia Records and released several top 10 albums in the 1960s, scoring two US top 40 hits with “People” and “Second Hand Rose”.

Her success as a recording artist continued through the 1970s with several more gold/platinum-certified albums and four US “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”, “No More Tears”, the Oscar-winning “The Way We Were”, and the Academy Award-winning “Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)”. The 1980s would begin with Streisand’s biggest-selling release of her career Guilty, a collaborative effort with BeeGees member Barry Gibb. It topped the albums chart in several countries and as did its lead single “Woman In Love”.

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